Monday, October 7, 2024

Sati Burj

 

Sati Burj Mathura
Sati Burj  is a 17m high four-storey sandstone tower built in 1570 by Raja Bhagwan Das, the son of Jaipur ruler Behari Mal, to commemorate his mother’s sati (self-immolation on her husband’s funeral pyre). Mariam-uz-Zamani, sister of Bhagwan Das, was the chief consort of Mughal emperor Akbar and mother of Jahangir, the fourth Mughal emperor.

In ancient India the custom of Sati was condemned by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, was the court-poet of Harsha.

During the Vijayanagar period, the Sati or Sahagaman was performed only by women belonging to higher strata of the society. 

in 1821 Raja Ram Mohan had launched a Bengali weekly newspaper Sambad Kaumudi or “The Moon of the Intelligence” through which he started a campaign for the abolition of Sati. 

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati (suttee) practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829 by the then Governor Genral of Fort Willim (Bengal) Lord William Bentinck who later became the India’s first governor general. 

 

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